Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare [[electronic resource] ] : Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Western Europe / / edited by Paul Christopher Manuel, Miguel Glatzer

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2019.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXVI, 232 p. 19 illus., 17 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 320.94
• Soggetto topico: Europe—Politics and government; Religion and politics; Democracy; Welfare state; Political sociology; Welfare economics; European Politics; Politics and Religion; Politics of the Welfare State; Political Sociology; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy
• Persona (resp. second.): ManuelPaul Christopher; GlatzerMiguel
• Nota di contenuto: 1. “Use Words Only if Necessary”: the Strategic Silence of Organized Religion in Contemporary Europe -- 2. The Entanglement and Disentanglement of Church and State in Irish Social Policy -- 3. Religiously Oriented Welfare Organizations in the Italy before and after the Great Recession: Towards a More Relevant Role in the Provision of Social Services? -- 4. Muted Vibrancy and the Invisible Politics of Religion: Catholic Third Sector, Economic Crisis, and Territorial Welfare in Spain -- 5. The State, Religious Institutions, and Welfare Delivery: The Case of Portugal -- 6. Church-State Relations in Today’s Crisis-Beset Greece: A Delicate Balance within a Frantic Society.-7. Combining Secular Public Space and Growing Diversity? Interactions between Religious Organizations as Welfare Providers and the Public in Sweden -- 8. Social Capital and Religion in the United Kingdom -- 9. Faith-based Organizations under Double-Pressure: The Impact of Market-Liberalization and Secularization on Caritas and Diakonie in Germany. .
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services. It asks how faith-based organizations, in a time of economic crisis, and with declining numbers of adherents, might contribute to the deepening of democracy. Throughout, the volume invites social scientists to consider the on-going role of faith-based organizations in Western European civil society, and investigates whether the concept of muted vibrancy aids our theoretical understanding.
• Titolo autorizzato: Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare
• ISBN: 3-319-77297-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910338018203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy